3,515 said AMLO should remain the president of Mexico, while 303 want his mandate to be revoked
Citizen depositing their ballot. A total of 3,870 votes were collected in Chapala. Photo: Jazmín Stengel.
Jazmín Stengel (Chapala).- Ten percent of registered voters in Chapala participated in the recall initiative to revoke the mandate of the President of the Republic, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO).
Presidents of polling stations assured that the low turnout was due to misinformation among the community. In the democratic exercise held on Sunday, April 103, 870 Chapala residents participated out of the 38,306 registered on the National Electoral Institute’s (INE) nominal list, or 10.1 percent.
Of the total votes cast, 3,515 believed AMLO should continue to be the president of Mexico, while 303 wanted his mandate revoked due to loss of confidence and 52 canceled their vote, according to the figures of the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of Jalisco (IEPC).
A canceled vote may be a ballot that is marked unclearly but it also can be considered a null vote, a popular method to show dissatisfaction with either ballot choice.
Many interested in voting were unable to do so because no special polling place was installed in the entire municipality. The closest one was in the main plaza of Jocotepec, as it is the head of the 17 th electoral district. A special polling place is needed when people are outside of their normal polling area. With the election occurring during Easter week many voters were not in their voting districts.
The municipal seat of Chapala had five poll locations with two voting boxes each where 1,355 opinions were collected, of which 1,263 were in favor of the president remaining in office, 80 that he be recalled and 12 people annulled their vote.
The delegation of Ajijic obtained 91 votes in favor of the recall of the mandate. However, 859 preferred that Andres Manuel continue as president, and 19 people canceled their vote.
There were 908 participants in Atotonilquillo; 852 of them in favor of López Obrador continuing to govern, 43 against and 13 canceled their vote. Being the farthest delegation from the municipal capital, it only had two double-box polling places.
In San Antonio Tlayacapan, with one voting center at the Cuauhtémoc Federal Elementary School at the corner of the main plaza, a total of 405 votes were cast, 70 of them in favor of the recall and 330 for AMLO’s continuation; five canceled their vote.
In Santa Cruz de la Soledad, the total number was 232 participants, 18 in favor of the presidential recall and 211 against. San Nicolás de Ibarra did not have a polling center and was included in the polls that were installed in the neighboring town of Santa Cruz de la Soledad.
«Due to budget cuts», the number of polling places were reduced, and several sections were combined, explained Luis Orozco, general coordinator for the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena). In addition, the precincts marked with the numbers 460, 461, 464, 465, 471 and 473 do not appear in the list of published results, as of the closing of this edition.
Translated by Nita Rudy
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